So how do we define the "Ego"

So how do we define the "Ego", if we are trying to make distinctions between what is real and what is falsely created...

It is simple really, everything on the outside sad to say, is fake. Fake in the sense of having been created by cultural conditions, leading to personality with it's ever present inflated leader, "The Ego".

In my system of study we call this the "False personality" aided by his or her chief engineer, "Imaginary I"...

If one can look beyond the sensual world, taking a position of neutrality that allows one to see what is truly happening...
One would get a conscious shock that illuminates the ridiculous nature of one's self inflicted external struggles. If you really think about it most if not nothing at all, of what one has struggled for, will actually survive in 500 years time, except maybe in museums or private collections as curiosities of days gone by...

What we do take with us as we step through Death's doorway, is that "memory Movie" of one's life....

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